The company does it all--it provides short messaging services (SMS)--multimedia services (MMS) Internet access (WAP) and wireless gaming.
In fact, there is an SMS (Short Messaging Service) service that will automatically send you alerts on your cell phone.
SmartPay links users' bank accounts to their mobile-phone numbers, enabling them to pay via short messaging services (SMS, or text messaging).
Using the Short Messaging Service (SMS) functions on mobiles, people with hearing difficulties can communicate by typing messages into their phones.
Therefore, its short messaging service has always worked really well on a mobile device while Facebook has always felt bulky and ill-sized for a mobile format.
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Besides moving more of the wired world into your physical space, Chuah works on new ways to depict yourself online, as wireless data services like short messaging move beyond text to graphics.
When I first heard about Shenzhen-based Tencent during the early 2000s from ICQ managers, Tencent was working with China Mobile to allow PC users to send short messages from PCs to phones, and then via SMS (mobile Short Messaging Service) back again.
The Philippine cellphone market has been growing at an exceptional rate, riding on the crest of the popularity of SMS (short messaging system), in which subscribers send text messages to each other, and on the poor service of the largest landline and longtime telephone monopoly PLDT, which operates Globe's closest cellular rival, Smart.
The findings illustrate the challenges facing Twitter in demonstrating to small-business owners the benefits of using the short-messaging service to reach customers.
Those companies are now down 30% to 40% from their highs, two weeks after Netease reported a 20% decline in its short-messaging-service business.
Already, short-messaging system (SMS) is being used to disseminate latest news to mobile phones of users who would otherwise be left out of the information loop.
Apple Inc. and Twitter Inc. held discussions more than a year ago about Apple possibly making a strategic investment in the short-messaging service, at a time when many technology giants were playing catch-up in social media.
Start with simple and short communications: conversing over instant messaging, participating in a short webconference, or accessing and resharing documents.
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Microsoft says it will use the company's software, people and intellectual property to accelerate the delivery of its unified communications vision, a vision bringing together various technologies including e-mail, instant messaging, short message service, telephony, and Web conferencing.
He's the co-founder of Eyespot, a YouTube-lookalike startup with a twist: Its users can already send short videos to any mobile phone using multimedia messaging, which is offered standard with most phones, regardless of network or brand.
According to the Yankee Group, more than half of all teens between the ages of 13 and 17 are active users of wireless text messaging, sending blurbs using the "SMS" short message service.
Using a form of text messaging similar to SMS, this sends out up to a million short messages a day, encouraging the recipients in their local language to contact the national AIDS hot line.
But today, whenever there is an unanticipated short silence -- cell service goes temporarily dead, e-mail or text messaging or social networks cease to function because of an electronic burp somewhere -- it gives us the occasion to reflect upon how quickly we have gotten used to the new way, with our messages coming in and going out continually and seamlessly, day and night.
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